Hans-Georg Lueder

Karl Hans-Georg Wilhelm Ludwig Alfred Lueder (born October 2, 1908 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † August 29, 1989 in Hanover ) was a German army officer, most recently a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr.

Life

Promotions

• 1931 lieutenant
• 1933 first lieutenant
• 1938 captain
• 1941 major
• 1944 Lieutenant Colonel
• 1945 Colonel
• 1960 Brigadier General

Lueder joined the 12th (Saxon) cavalry regiment in Dresden in 1927 as an officer candidate . In 1928/29 he attended the Reichswehr infantry school there . 1929/30 he was at the cavalry school of the Reichswehr in Hanover. From 1930 he served as platoon leader in the 2nd / 12th Cavalry Regiment in Grossenhain. In 1934 he became a regimental adjutant. Taken into the Wehrmacht in 1935 , he was a battalion adjutant of the 1st division of Panzer Regiment 3 in the armored force . From 1938 to 1940 he was company commander . In 1940 he became a consultant and liaison officer for the Army High Command . At that time (1938–1944) he lived with his wife in Mödling . In 1942/43 he was in command of the heavy tank division 501. After being wounded in February 1943, he was taken to a hospital . In 1943/44 he was commander of the courses for the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger in Paderborn and in 1944/45 commander of the 16th Panzer Regiment, which was subordinate to the 116th Panzer Division . Shortly before the end of the war in 1945 he became 1st Adjutant in Army High Command 6 under General of the Panzer Force Hermann Balck . After that he was a prisoner of war for the Americans.

After the Second World War he became an employee and department head (1948) in the food department in Lübeck. In 1949 he moved to the administration for trade, shipping and trade, where he was also head of department in 1951. In 1952, the Blank Office in Bonn offered to help build a new German army, the "Bundeswehr". Here he was involved, among other things, with the extensive admission procedure for the recruitment of military service officers. In 1955 he was taken over as a colonel in the army (Bundeswehr) and joined the armored troops in the troop office in Cologne as a group or department head . 1958/59 he was deputy commander of the armored troop school in Munster. 1959–1961 he was commander of the Panzer Brigade 33 in Lingen and 1961–1966 of the Army Officer School I in Hanover. In 1961 he was promoted to Brigadier General with effect from 1960 . In 1966 he left the service.

Lueder married on August 3, 1937 in Bad Cannstatt Ingeburg Gertrud Margot Erika von Kleist (born February 10, 1918 in Berlin), the youngest of the three daughters of Lieutenant General Adolf Friedrich Theodor von Kleist . The marriage produced three children.

Awards

• Service award (Wehrmacht) 4th class (1936)
• Service award 3rd class (1939)
• Iron Cross 2nd Class (1939)
• Iron Cross 1st Class (1940)
• Panzer Badge in Silver (1940)
• Black Wound Badge (1943)
• Cuff Africa (1943)
• Medal for the Italian-German campaign in Africa (1943)
• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany , Great Federal Cross of Merit (1966)

literature

• Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model (eds.): The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr (1955-1999). The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 3: Laegeler - Quiel . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2382-8 , pp. 133-134.

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